YMMV / The Deep (Nick Cutter)

• Complete Monster:
  • The "Fig Men" are a duo of subterranean eldritch horrors who behave like a pair of mad scientists. Taking advantage of a world-devastating plague to create a supposed miracle cure called "ambrosia", the Fig Men lure human scientists to the bottom of the ocean for the purpose of studying the ambrosia, only to begin subjecting the scientists to grotesque forms of Mind Rape and Body Horror mutation that leave them broken and in constant agony; two scientists are reduced to living beehives, aware and in mind-shattering pain as new bees constantly propagate within them. The Fig Men are revealed to have kidnapped the little boy of the novel's protagonist, Luke Nelson, so they could spend the decade torturing and warping the kid into an abomination with which to break Luke's mind. In the end, the Fig Men are set to come upon the surface world, free to inflict their horrors upon the rest of humanity.
  • Beth Nelson, the incestuous, sadistic mother of Luke and his brother Clayton, was a grotesque Fat Bitch who controlled her household through utter fear. Beth abused both her husband and her sons, turning the former into a servile sex toy while seeking for years to do the same to her kids. Her constant sexual abuse of Clayton, well into his adulthood, helped warp him into an emotionally deficit mad scientist and prompted him to eventually kill her.

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